District of



UNITED I STATES PATENT OFFICE.

WILLIAM SNOW AND JAMES A. JOHNS, OF WASHINGTON, DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA.

LINIMENT.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 437,728, dated October'7, 1890.

Application filed July 7, 1890. Serial No. 358,003.

To aZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, WILLIAM SNOW and JAMES A. JOHNS, citizens of theUnited States, residing at Washington, in the District of Columbia, haveinvented certain new and useful Improvements in Medical Compounds, whichwe call White Oil or Liniment; and we do hereby declare the following,to be a full, clear, and eXact description of theinvention, such as willenable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and usethe same.

The said medical compound is used as an oil or liniment and it consistsof the following ingredients, combined in the proportions and in themanner herein stated, viz: tobacco, one pound; Jamestown seed,(Szfmmomima) one quart; quill-wort, (Isoctcs Zacustmls) three pounds;poke -root, (Phytolacca decandm,) four pounds; salt, (chloride ofsodium,) onefourth of a pound; Cayenne pepper, (Capsicum) four pods ortwo ounces; resin, one fourth of apound, and lard, two pounds. Thetobacco, Jamestown seed, quill-wort, (the ingredient quill-wort is atonic and anti-spasmodic in its character, and is of great value inrelieving or allaying pain in the various complaints hereinaftermentioned,) and pokeroot are taken in the proportions above named andboiled in four gallons of water. The water, of course, should be at theusual boiling (N0 specimens.)

temperature. This liquid is then taken and strained off in a suitablereceptacle, and is again replaced in the kettle, and to this liquid isadded lard, Cayenne pepper, salt, and resin in the above-mentionedproportions and boiled slowly with these last-named ingredients asuitable number of hours until the water is removed, when the whole isagain strained olf and bottled ready for use.

This oil or liniment is to be used externally by rubbing, and will befound a cure in cases of headache, neuralgia, cramp colic, rheumatism,fresh cuts, burns, cramps, &c.

Having thus described our invention, what we claim as new, and desire tosecure by Letters Patent, is

The herein-described medical compound as an oil or liniment, consistingof tobacco, Jamestown seed, quill-wort, poke-root, salt, Cayenne pepper,resin, lard, and water, in the proportions specified.

In testimony whereof we affix our signatures in the presence of twowitnesses.

\VM. SNOW.

his JAMES X A. JOHNS.

mark Witnesses:

WM. H. BATES, EDW. W. BYRN.

